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*Urban Horticulture - Necessity of the Future*

agricultural activities so present in their midst. The lack of encouragement to the young in the field generates the non-continuity of properties and the growing demographic, economic and cultural emptying of regions of predominance of family farming [3, 13]. According to Adeokun [1], all the efforts of the stakeholders for sustainable child development is valid, and this research continues to be a formidable way to rationalize alternatives and practices of agriculture in the school life. Projects of this nature are of great relevance to transform some esthetic concepts

such as the use of green spaces, actions geared towards environmental education, possibility of exploitation of reusable resources could be debated, used and transformed artistically in a vertical garden, which continues to be cared for by all

students and school staff, as documented in the study of Oliveira et al. [6]. With pedagogical practices appropriate to the work, elaboration and development of the school garden in public schools, it is observed that there is also encouragement to the various forms of learning and understanding, enabling the acquisition of new knowledge, where all, through research and practice can exert a dynamic activity, which favors the teaching of science, enabling the encouragement of research and discussion of topics as a food environment, waste, cooperative work, behavior and make possible the development of the teaching-learning method, through practice, in addition to awakening social values such as participation, sense of responsibility, interpersonal relationship and awareness of the

With the study carried out, it was possible to construct different types of gardens for different spaces, bringing to the school spaces the plant production and the productive knowledge for children in urban areas, in the guidelines of (1) sustainability in the ecological, economic, social, cultural, political and ethical dimensions; (2) agricultural production bringing well-being and guaranteeing productivity; (3) construction with low cost and use of recyclable materials and adopting the method

metastatic issues in the period in which we live.

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**3. Conclusions**

**Figure 4.**

*Gardens on roofs utilizing pallets.*

in educational spaces.

Adriana Maria dos Santos1 \*, Mariana Paiva Baracuhy1 , Dermeval Araújo Furtado1 , Romulo Wilker Neri de Andrade2 , Jackson Rômulo de Sousa Leite1 and Fabiana Terezinha Leal de Morais1

1 Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

2 Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

\*Address all correspondence to: ttstadriana@gmail.com

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